tucker

verb

1. 1

   slangTo tire out or exhaust a person or animal.

   Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.

noun

1. 1

   One who or that which tucks.

   Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy. Determination: Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.

2. 2

   Food; tuck.

   By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.

3. 3

   datedWork that scarcely yields a living wage.

noun

1. 1

   Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.

   “And, ma′am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.” “I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”

   “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it′s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers, when we are tired and cross.”

2. 2

   obsoleteA fuller; one who fulls cloth.

Forms

plural

tuckers

past tense

tuckered

past participle

tuckered

present participle

tuckering

third person singular

tuckers